Rabindra Mandal BD, PhD

Rabindra K. Mandal, Ph.D., BVSc & AH is an Assistant Research Professor of Pediatrics infectious diseases at the Indiana University School of Medicine in the Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health. He completed his Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry degree from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2010. Dr. Mandal moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas to complete his doctoral degree in Poultry Science focusing on functional genomics of bacteria and animal microbiome in 2016. He completed postdoctoral training on the role of the gut microbiome in severe malaria in 2021.

Dr. Mandal is interested in how gut microbial metabolites and toxins impact the severity of malaria. His research has identified mice with severe malaria have gut bacteria with the genomic capacity to produce hemolysins and metabolize sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) compared to resistant mice. Particularly, he is interested in how hemolysins, S1P, intestinal homeostasis, and RBC are interconnected to impact the severity of malaria.